WHO: Department of Public Works (DPW) and the Office of Equitable Transit and Mobility

 WHAT: Speed Management Symposium

The City implements a comprehensive safety program to achieve significant reductions in traffic crashes, fatalities and injuries on public roadways – Join us to learn more on the actions the City is taking to help manage speed!

• Presentations
  
  • Speed Management Program
  • Vision Zero Initiative
  • Richmond Connects and Safety
• Safer Streets Information Tables
  
  • Representatives from various divisions throughout DPW,  Office of Equitable Transit and Mobility, RPD and VCU Police, Fire, Plan RVA and Bike Walk RVA | Sports Backers  
• Feedback with question and answer session
• Refreshments will be served, please RSVP

WHEN:  Tuesday, April 18 from 5:30 – 8 p.m.

WHERE: Main Street Station, 1500 Main Street (2nd Floor Shed)

BACKGROUND:  Speed management in the City of Richmond involves a balanced program effort with all hands on deck. Despite a reduction in the overall number of crashes in the City of Richmond, severe-injury and fatal crashes are increasing, even in the face of concerted efforts to curtail them. Speed is the common vector in these tragic incidents, and the city’s engineering efforts to manage speed and improve safety cannot achieve that alone. We need everyone to work together to slow down, and create a culture of safety in our City in order to reverse this trend. Learn about new and future projects addressing speed management,  how the city is using road design and engineering, reducing speed limits and applying enforcement efforts to increase safety on our roadways, and how community members can help create a safer traveling environment for people, regardless of whether they walk, roll, bike, or drive.

Go to: https://www.rva.gov/public-works/speed-management-symposium to RSVP.

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The City of Richmond Department of Public Works (DPW) is one of only 195 currently accredited public works agencies in the United States. DPW’s portfolio comprises a wide array of services to include leaf collection; street, sidewalk and alley maintenance; trash collection; recycling; grass cutting;  graffiti removal; parking enforcement; urban forestry; street signs; traffic signals and pavement markings and civil engineering. In addition, DPW maintains upkeep on most city buildings; issues permits for working in the city’s right-of-way; manages the RVA Bike Share program and maintains the fleet of city vehicles. DPW’s operating budget comes from the general fund of the City of Richmond.  For more information about DPW services, click here or call 3-1-1.